Wire-winding tool



No. 750,206. PATENTED JAN. 19, 1904. M. E. LAYNB'. WIRE WINDING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 8. 1903.

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. By x UNITED FSTATES Patented .Tanuary 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MAHLON E. LAYNE, OF ROCK RAPIDS, IOWA.

WIRE-WINDING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 750,206, dated January19, 1904.

Application filed January 8, 1903. Serial No. 138,216. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, MAHLON E. LAYNE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Rock Rapids, Lyon'county, Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvementsin Wire-Winding Tools, of which thefollowing, taken; in connection with the accompanying drawing, is aspecification.

This invention has reference to apparatus of the kind specified, such asis used for example in winding wire around a skeleton frame for themanufacture of well screens or other like devices. 7

The first of the objects of this present invention is the provision of adevice of the character mentioned which will be of simple and cheapconstruction, and yet which will serve to wind any size or kind of wire,about any size or kind of screen or frame, or pipe, and which, by thechange of a small piece of the device, can be made to place the wirestrands just such a distance apart as may be desired.

A further object of the invention is the provision of 'an apparatus ofthe kind specified which will not only guide and hold the wire in properposition as it is paid out to the device upon which it is being wound,but which will at the-same-time act as a straightener for the wire totake out any kinks there may be therein, and which will exert a tensionor pull upon the wire, that will hold the wire-tight around the articleabout which it is being wound, and will at the same time hold the devicetightly in position against the article so that it ,may properly act asa guide for the wire.

The above, as, well as such other objects as may hereinafter appear, Iattain by means of a construction whichIhave illustrated in preferredform in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevationof an apparatus embodying my improvement,

Figure 2 is a detail view showing a well screen being constructed by theuse of my apparatus, and

Figure 3 is an end View and section on line 3 of the device showingthejaw and the guide grooves therefor.

In carrying out .myinventionl first pro,- vide a main piece or handle 4,formed with a jaw at 5, designed to extend upon opposite sides of theframe or reel indicated at 6 which is to be wound with the wire 7 that,as shown, runs around pins 8, and between certain of the pins 8 andtension devices 9, which, are held by means offastening screws 10passing through slots 11, so as to permit of change in the adjustment ofthe tension devices 9 to vary the amount of pull upon the wire withinthe limits desired, Upon the inner face of one of, the jaws of theforked end of the device 4 is secured detachably as by screws 12 a guideplate 12, which is out as a portion of a threaded die, as indicated inFigure 3, the said guide plate being secured to the inner face of theupper jaw 13, as shown, by any desired means, and arranged so that itcan be replaced by another if adiiferent size of wire is to be wound, orthe spacing between the adjacent strands is to be altered. In some casesI may use an additional guide 14, as

shown in Figure 3. I

The guide may be of any desired construction and attached to the jaws inany manner convenient for its being replaced by another of differentpitch.

The operation of my invention is as follows:

The wire having been started around the pins 8 and the tension devices9, as indicated in Figure 1, the frame about which the wire isto bewound is caused to rotate in the direction shown by the arrow in Figure1, when the wire will begin to wind about the frame, the first couple ofstrands being spaced sufficiently far apart to engage with the firstcouple of teeth on the guide plate 12, as shown in Figure 2, after whichthe said guide plate will continue to draw the device laterally, thatis, lengthwise of the article upon which the wire is being wound, andcause the remaining part of the wire to be wound with the spacingbetween each adjacent strand just the same as was made in the case ofthe first couple of strands, and as is determined by the space 12between the teeth. The first two strands as indicated in Figure 2, by 7and the teeth with which theythen engage as indicated by 12, serves toproperly guide the rest.

The tension devices 9 being so adjusted by means of the slotted openings11 and screws 10 as to produce the proper amount of frictional pressureupon the wire 7 the wire 7 is caused to pull upon the device 4 and holdit tightly in contact with the frame 6, 15, upon which the wire is beingwound, and to hold the guide plate 12 in position upon the strands whichhave already been wound.

This apparatus is intended primarily to make the form of well screen setforth in my copending application No. 138,217 but of course is asadaptable to use in any wire winding operation. It is important in thescreen referred to, to place the turns of wire at a perfectly uniformdistance apart and keep a constant tension on the wire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- V 1. An apparatus for winding wirecomprising a body part or handle having a forked end, tension devicesfor the wire,and a guide plate therefor upon one of the forks of thehandle having a plurality of slots, substantially as described.

2. A tool comprising a body with a divergent forked jaw to embrace asupporting frame, tension devices for a Wire on the body and slottedguides in the forked jaws for engaging the wound wire on the frame tosteady the same and space the wire.

3. A device for winding Wire comprising in combination a body portion,divergent forked extremities upon said body portion, adapted to enbracethe article to be wound, a guide attached to one of said forkedextremities, designed to engage the strands of the wire after they areWound upon the article, and thereby feed the winding device along.

4:. Awire Winding tool comprising a handle having regulable tensiondevices for the wire, a rigid forked end, and one of the jaws of thefork having an interchangeable slotted guide to space and feed the-wirealong the support upon which it is being Wound.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MAHLON E. LAYNE.

In presence of PAUL CARPENTER, PHILIP J FINNEGAN.

